Hypocrite feds blame states for water crisis

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Water Minister, David Littleproud, has hypocritically attacked Australia’s states for failing to build enough dams to provide for Australia’s ballooning population:

The federal government has sounded a warning about falling water security, saying the states have failed to match water storage with population growth over the past two decades.

At the current rates, water storage per person in NSW, Victoria and Queensland will fall by more than 30 per cent by 2030, Water Minister David Littleproud says in a statement on Tuesday.

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.